In 1990, a farmer in central China stumbled on a skull so battered it looked more like a pancake than a fossil. For decades, scientists squinted at the flattened bones of “Yunxian 2,” guessing it ...
Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...